When we feel threatened, we react. We all do. It’s not a question of IF we react. The question is HOW we react, and how aware we are that a reaction is occurring - in the moment it is occurring. The more aware we are of our reaction, the less our pre-frontal cortex...

Welcome to my VUCA blog series exploring at how we navigate stressful situations and environments (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) by “Going Reptile.” (If you’re just joining the series, you may want to go back to the beginning and read the...

Welcome to this immersion series of posts exploring at how we tend to navigate stressful situations and environments (VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) by “Going Reptile.” (If you’re just joining the series, you may want to go back to the...

We’ve been looking at how we tend to navigate stressful situations and environments (VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) by “Going Reptile.” (If you’re just joining the series, you may want to go back to the beginning and read the introduction.)...

In this post we are continuing our inquiry into the various ways in which we humans respond to stressful situations and environments (VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity). If you’re just joining the series, you may want to go back to the beginning...

In the past few posts, we’ve covered the basics of WHY we might want to take a look at how we, and others, react to stressful situations and environments (VUCA: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity). To review, when we react, we begin to lose access to...

Stress: a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. In my last post, we explored an acronym that is increasingly used to describe life in the 21st Century: VUCA, which stands for Volatility, Uncertainty,...

VUCA is a term that is being tossed around a lot these days. It stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity, and it sums up quite well the nature of life in 2017 Wherever we look today, we’re faced with VUCA. At work. Culturally. Politically. Our...

It’s a question as old as human civilization: are we inherently self-interested agents fighting for power and resources in the jungle of existence? Or, do we possess a deeper capacity for good—and an ability to act altruistically on behalf of others and society as a...